Shoe and method of making same.



1. E. spun. SHOE AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME.

APPLICATION FILED DEC-29. 1915- r 1,260,945. Patented Mar. 26, 1918.

INVENTOR,

IBYQW f). ATTORNEY.

JOHN E. SCOTT, OF MARBLEHEAD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIG-NOR OF ONE-HALF T0 THOMAS C. BOWEN, OF SWAMPSCOTT, MASSACHUSETTS.

SHOE AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 26, 1918.

Application filed December 29, 1915. Serial No. 69,274.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN E. Sco'r'r, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Marblehead, county of Essex, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Shoes and Methods of Making Same, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts in each of the several views.

This invention relates to shoes, more particularly, though not exclusively, to childrens shoes and to an improved method of making the same. One important object of the invention is to provide a shoe of the socalled turn type that combines and em bodies also the principal advantages of the welt type of shoe, such as increased wearing quality, capability of retaining its shape through a long period of use and of being tapped or half soled when required. A further object is to provide an improved method of making such a,shoe by a modification of the turn system. The invention will be better understood from the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and will be thereafter pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view showing the bottom of a shoe constructed in accordance with my invention with the welt applied to the middle and outer soles;

Fig. 2 is a lengthwise vertical section through the bottomof the shoe with a heel piece in place;

Fig. 3 is a similar lengthwise section showing the bottom of the shoe without a separate heel piece;

Fig. 4 is a partial lengthwise section showing the front of the shoe before it is turned, but with the upper stitched to the welt; and

Fig. 5 is a similar partial section showing the front of the shoe after the shoe is turned.

Anouter sole is indicated at 10 of suitable thickness and outline. On this is superposed another sole member 11 which may be termed a middle sole and to which a welt 12 has beenpreviously stitched by stitching 13. The middle sole 11 and the welt 12 are then secured to the outer sole 10 by another stitching line 14 which extends through all three line 14 is produced, and said stitching passed through this heel piece as well, to hold it in assembled relation with the sole members. The built-up sole thus constituted, with or without the inserted heelpiece 15 is thus a complete and permanently assembled unit before the upper is applied thereto, and it is to be noted that the formation and relative arrangement of the parts including the welt 12 is such that the upper is adapted to be applied, and the shoe finished, by the well known turn method of shoe making. For this purpose the welt 12 as shown is relatively thin and applied to the middle sole 11 by the stitching 13 in a manner so as to leave a substantial inner edge portion thereof entirely free and in position to receive the stitching 17 for securing the upper, without having the upper stitching 17 intersect or cross the stitching line 13 which secures the welt to the middle sole; this being an important point, as in cases where stitching lines thus intersect, the sharp point of the needle in applying the later stitching line is apt to cut the stitches of the line first produced and thus weaken the seam. I believe that the present shoe is the first adapted to be produced by the turn system and equipped with a separate outer sole, such as tion, applied to fill in the cavity made by the welt and an insole 19 fitted in completing the make up of the shoe. The insole 19 as seen in Fig. 5 fits the peripheral outline of the shoe covering the roughness that would otherwise result from the projecting edge of the upper and from the edges of the exposed filling piece 18.

Among the distinctive advantages of the present construction is that the wear of the full thickness of the outer sole is obtained before the stitching 13 which holds the welt is exposed-at all. Further during all this period of wear the shape of the shoe is retained intact by the middle sole 11, and will in fact be retained until this middle sole which in a sense corresponds to the inner sole of a welt shoe, is well worn out. With my improved construction the middle sole 11 can be made of cheaper leather than would ordinarily be required for an inner sole or for an element serving the functions of the sole 11. I believe it to be also new in my present construction to provide for inserting or applying one or more heel pieces such as the heel piece 15 and fastening the same before the shoe is turned. I also consider it to be a new and valuable feature of invention to provide for permanently applying and securing both heel and outer sole before the shoe is turned. It will be noted that a shoe constructed as described can be tapped or half soled readily since there is a substantial backing formed by the middle sole 11 and the welt 12 to which a new half sole may be secured; this being impossible in the ordinary turn shoe type. While the heel pieces 15 are preferably secured in place by the same stitching 14 that secures the two soles and the welt together, it will be understood that if desired this stitching at the back may be omitted and the heels inserted and nailed or otherwise secured. I also consider it to be a new and valuable improvement to produce a securing seam in a double sole before turning the same, this being obviouslyeasier and more convenient. I donot desire to be limited to the precise structural details herein exhibited and therefore desire the present embodiment to be considered as illustrative and not restrictive, referring to the appended claims rather than to the foregoing description to indicate the scope of the'invention.

Having described my invention, what I mo est claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A built-up sole for a turn type of shoe, consisting in a middle sole member, an outer sole member secured thereto by peripheral stitching, and a welt secured to said middle sole member by stitching extending only through said middle sole member and said welt, the inner edge of said welt sole member secured peripherally to bothsaid welt and said first named sole member. 3. A built-up sole for a turn type of shoe, consisting in an outer sole member, a

middle sole member, a heel piece interposed between said members, means for uniting said members adjacent their peripheral edge, and a welt secured to said middle sole member by a line of stitching extending only through it and said middle sole member, the inner edge of said welt being adapted to receive a line of stitching for securing it to1 an upper while in reversed position on a ast.

4. The herein described method which consists in securing a welt member to a middle sole member by stitching extending through said members only, then securing an outer soleto said members, and then, securing an upper to the inner edge of said welt by stitching through said welt while the sole and the upper are in reversed position on a last.

In ,testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification. I

JOHN E. SCOTT. 

